Sam Kennedy
Research Assistant, Dialogue Project Leader, PhiLife Commons Editor
Sam is an educator and philosopher from Chicago, Illinois. He has been working in various capacities with Notre Dame's "God and the Good Life" course since its inception in 2016, but he transitioned to working primarily with Philosophy as a Way of Life programming after he graduated from Notre Dame in 2020. His work focuses on developing dialogue programs at partner schools and building up the PhiLife Commons database of digital essays. Sam has also worked as a classroom teacher, tutor, and librarian at various K-12 schools and NGOs in the US. Aside from philosophizing and educating, Sam is an avid cinephile, and enjoys travel, hiking, and board games.